Office Management

[cianocc]

Hi, please can you help, I am trying to get further information regarding Office Management (Health and Safety Legislation / facilities etc), I work as a PA but my role has evolved to include the managment of the office

[queenbean]

Hi there

The only one I know about is with Reed (www.reedlearning.co.uk), and the only reason I know of it is because their training directory landed on my desk.  It looks a bit pricey though, and I'm not sure that it covers enough specifics of office management.  I see they also do separate Health & Safety at Work, Employment Law and HR courses that might be more what you're looking for.

Anyway, worth a look - they look like they have some pretty good courses across a wide range.

Hope this helps.

QB

[countrigal]

Are you looking for training, classes and such?  Or are you looking for websites?  Information only?  Magazines you can read?  Not sure exactly what you're looking for, and that might help us give you more direction.

CountriGal
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[cianocc]

Hi, I am trying to get some training and any reading material would be welcome.  I have had a look through the reed catalogue they do have courses a few courses.  

Thank you all.

[elkiedee]

when you say office management is it more running the office or managing other people, or a mixture of both?

When I did my secretarial training 10 years ago a lot of the secretarial course textbooks for all round training (I did the LCCI Private Secretary's Certificate course and studied for the diploma exams at the same time, squeaked through somehow with a few practice papers) included a lot of information which would be useful, I'd suggest looking for a handbook aimed at fairly senior secretaries.

If you're moving into managing other people, HR, health and safety, maybe a general management/intro to management course would help, I know it's something some of my PA colleagues have done a bit of.

Luci